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This footnote follows the sentence, "Staying with an old friend," but the line directly above it reads, "It also allows me to sleep."  These blank footnotes where I have inscribed a melody that also appears in chapter seventeen, page 403, just as Johnny wakes up.  In this part of the book, Johnny is making everything up, and I presumed to be crazy.  I imagine that the same insanity that fell on Navidson, the curse of this whole story, is now upon Johnny, and he too will he haunted by this melody.

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"______ take one look at that dark place and retreats...Ten minutes later ______ is gone...A little later ______ is also gone."

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Dusting off the keys to attempt Navidson's "Don't Be Scared/Daisy Daisy etc." song deep within the house.

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Alternative Beginning, the Introduction Re-Written

Introduction

He had a first floor apartment, this old guy who lived in his building, Lude told me while I was looking for a new apartment. Actually, Lude had told me about the old man a month or so before.

Excedrin Pms, Melatonin, L-tryptophan, Valium, Vicodin.

I still get nightmares. I'm so tired. I was promptly evicted. No one ever really gets used to nightmares. I could have put up a fight but the place was a nuthouse anyway and I was glad to leave.

Excedrin Pms, Melatonin, L-tryptophan, Valium, Vicodin, I should be used to them by now.

Inevitable, I suppose, as it turned out, a 757 had crashed into it. Burnt the place to the ground a week later. Sleep's been stalking me for too long to remember. I'm not looking forward to Charles de Gaulle convincing me that the thought of a 757 landing on me was not at all disagreeable.

Excedrin Pms, Melatonin, L-tryptophan, Valium, Vicodin, quite a few members of the barbital family.

shots of bourbon, a few lung rasping bong hits, sometimes even the vaporous confidence-trip of cocaine. Anything to curb the fear. Every pill imaginable, but there's no lab sophisticated enough yet to synthesize the kind of chemicals I need.

My friend Lude woke me up at three in the morning and asked if I had heard the phone ring, I was stunned by this announcement, but sleep's been stalking me for too long to remember why.

I still get nightmares of Charles de Gaulle. In fact I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. Excedrin Pms, Melatonin, L-tryptophan, Valium, Vicodin. None of it helped.

Lude, Charles de Gaulle, none of it helped. Excedrin Pms, Melatonin, L-tryptophan, Valium, Vicodin.

No one really gets used to nightmares, but the place was a nuthouse anyway, I'd been in the throes of looking for sleep, but I couldn't find it in Charles de Gaulle's apartment. Besides, a 757 crashed into it.

I keep taking Excedrin Pms, Melatonin, L-tryptophan, Valium, Vicodin and burn the place down. It helps.

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